Before the east and west coast rap beef of the 1990s boiled over with the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG, legendary producer Quincy Jones called a secret meeting at which he appealed for an ...

Retiring after 52 years is “bittersweet” for Average White Band co-founder Alan Gorrie. But he is adamant that the ...

Lou Donaldson, a pioneering figure in the soul jazz movement, passed away on November 9th. He was 98 years old.

He left indelible imprints on jazz, pop, hip-hop and dozens of film and television soundtracks. There was very little he did ...

The City Paper Music Awards offers an annual opportunity to celebrate the best in local music. This year, CP readers voted for their favorite artists across genres including country, reggae, hip-hop, ...

US music titan Quincy Jones who produced Michael Jackson 's Thriller album and collaborated with artists including Frank ...

Now, the hip-hop legend is bringing the album to life with ... which performed on the studio album. Composed and scored by RZA, “A Ballet Through Mud” is billed as a dynamic coming-of-age ...

EXCLUSIVE The legendary rapper also discussed with The Standard the ‘risk’ of releasing his first album in over a decade ...

NI’s beat-maker gets its first full upgrade in 11 years adding stem separation, a new sound library and… not much else ...

Natalie Bailey's 2024 directorial debut Audrey is a welcome – albeit more barbed and prickly – addition to the antipodean genre.

In Brown County: Atmosphere returns to the region There are plenty of tickets left to see hip-hop band Atmosphere at ... releasing over two dozen studio albums, EP's and collaborative side ...

I wanted to explore that passion in a deeper way: by becoming a maker, not a consumer ... with kids pounding beers and cheap vodka, and hip-hop bangers played at jet-plane volume.